<p>I keep hearing from colleges that they have not received one of my recommendation letters. This is not my own fault, as I gave the rec letters to the teachers last October, but one of the forgot to mail them. She said she'll mail the rec letters on Monday. Will this hurt my candidacy and have schools not even started to review my candidacy? I'm applying to some ivies, and colleges in California.</p>
<p>I depends. Most schools specifically state that during their grace period for documents, you won't be adversely affected by late materials. Since you have a good reason - that you couldn't really do anything about - you'll eb fine in this regard.</p>
<p>don't worry. but let her write an appropriate note explaining her lack of responsibility.</p>
<p>Can she fax them to the schools? That will certainly be faster.</p>
<p>Try to get her to fax the letters or at least insist on paying for priority mail. I think it totally sucks that some teachers will agree to write letters and then not have them done until waaaay after the deadline, but you are definitly not the first person that this has happened to. Makes me sooo happy that my teacher's held up their end of the bargain.</p>
<p>I told my teacher all my deadlines when I gave him the letters, then came back a couple weeks before the deadline and he hadn't done them. He got them in before the deadline, but he was annoyed and said that I hadn't told him the deadlines (the first). I really hope he didn't take any anger out in my recs.</p>